Timothy Lenoir, "Premediating Neurofutures: Brain-Machine Interfaces and the New New Media"

This Friday Timothy Lenoir will give a talk that will trace lines of convergence among several areas of neuroscience, engineering, and computational media that raise prospects for not only realizing early dreams of human augmentation via man-computer symbiosis, but also of possibly transforming the human being as we know it in radical ways.

He will look specifically at current work in brain-machine interfaces used in therapeutic neuroprosthetics, and will address the research being done in the cognitive neuroscience on the role of affect in decision making, as well as on the leveraging of next-generation social media and smart devices as the "brain-machine" interfaces for measuring, data-mining, modeling, and mapping affect.

Friday, March 30

3:30 pm

Curtin 118

Free and open to the public

Also if you are interested...

Brown bag lunch with Timothy Lenoir

Friday, March 30

12 noon, Curtin 939

Who is Timothy Lenoir? He is he Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies in Society at Duke University, and is the founder and co-director of GreaterThanGames, which is a multidisciplinary lab at Duke that focuses on the development of transmedia, alternate reality games. Turning Swords to Ploughshares (http://www.virtualpeace.org), a training and simulation game-based learning environment for workers and students in the field of peace and conflict resolution.

Click here for more information.

Peck School of the Arts is looking for a Communications Assistant

Peck School of the Arts is looking for a Communications Assistant. It is an ideal position for recent graduates and is an entry level job.

As a Communications Assistant you will work closely with the Marketing Specialist, Director of Marketing, and Creative specialist to help write material, manage information, track media hits, and build the Peck School of the Arts' social media platform to increase visibility for the school among prospective and currant students and the community at large. The Communications Assistant needs to be a creative writer and a team player with a passion for social media as they will need t o keep the Peck School of the Arts at the forefront of new social media trends.

Other Key activities include: manage, implement and maintain all social media campaigns for School, update and help monitor the school’s website content on a regular basis, implement email marketing efforts, create web pages following CMS system and brand guidelines, design print materials as needed, track online marketing efforts, and perform general office and event management support.


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CIE Global Studies Fellows Balloon Launch

Come join UWM, the place of powerful ideas, and this year's Global Studies Fellow at the Center for International Education as they invite you to share your "powerful" ideas during a photo-documented balloon launch. Participants will write their ideas on a balloon that will be launched. The Global Studies Fellows will be there with their ideas and ready to hear yours. Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to participate in this pubic expression of ideas and also learn from the diversity of intellectual and imaginative work at UWM,

March 27, 2012  

Balloon Launch 2:30-3:30

Garland Hall First Floor

CIE Open House 3:00-4:30

www.international.uwm.edu

Sponsored by UWM's Center for International Education and Organized by the Global Studies Fellows:
Erica Bornstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Elena Gorfinkel, Assistant Professor of Art History and Film Studies
Ingrid Jordt, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Lisa Silverman, Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies
Natasha Borges Sugiyama, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Tami Williams, Assistant Professor of Film Studies and English

City of Milwaukee is seeking a Public Relations Supervisor

Under the direction of the Public Information Manager, the Public Relations Supervisor assists in managing the public relations and publications functions of the Public Information Division of the Common Council-City Clerk’s Office.


Deadline: March 30, 2012


More information at: 
http://city.milwaukee.gov/jobs/OfficialAdministrative/PRS

Call for Artists: Screen Capture­

University of Iowa, May 2-8­

From the first moment that fire projected shadows onto the cave wall, people have used various types of screens to exhibit images and information. Today, we live in a society dominated by “screen culture.” We spend our days with screens: working with computers, texting on cell phones, relaxing with television, navigating by GPS, being distracted by moving billboards, and going to the movies. The ubiquity of screens in our lives obscures how different types of screens actually operate, both technologically and culturally. This exhibition explores the evolution of this screen culture and its myriad possibilities in transmission.

Screen Capture will present artwork that utilizes and explores the development of the screen as a platform for exhibition. This encompasses both low-tech and high-tech methods for transmitting images to a viewer via a “screen,” from flashlights, shadow puppets, and slide projectors, to computer monitors, cell phone screens, and large scale film projection. We encourage submissions from all artists using a screen to exhibit their work, and welcome artwork that pushes the boundaries with new and creative interpretations of the format.

The curators also welcome proposals for a very special BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) event on the closing night of the exhibition. Participants in this salon-style event are asked to bring their own mode of projection. For more information on BYOB and its initiator, Rafael Rozendaal, see www.byobworldwide.com.

This exhibition runs May 2 through May 8 in the Media Theater in Art Building West on the University of Iowa Campus.

Submissions must be received by email March 31, 2012 and include:

·      A project description of no more than 250 words

·      Note if you are applying to the exhibition, BYOB event, or both.

·      List of tech needs; please note if you can provide your own equipment.

·      1-2 page CV/resume

Digital support materials, such as URLs (preferred), images, and video files sent by email. Larger submissions may be sent using an online file transfer service such as DropSend.

Notification by April 11 and confirmation required by April 20. Work must be delivered by April 30.

Curated by students in Media Art Lab, a course in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa.